Friends giving up collecting in 2023 - Post continuation

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

There was a fairly long thread a few months ago where members in the pumper wing of the hobby were advising other members to do this or speaking positively about doing it, to drain their retirement accounts to invest in cards well after the peak. It was then followed by another thread where the pumpers also encouraged the taking out of loans to pay for cards that people couldn’t afford, and then getting upset at people who laughed at or questioned the reasonableness of this surely impartial advice.

The first paragraph of my post is a joke about the pumpers on the board who have been advocating people to do absolutely stupid things and promoting the narrative that cards won’t go down, because dumping more money than they have into cards would be good for the portfolios of the people advising this. Pretty slimy.

To be very clear, I would never sincerely advise anyone to do anything remotely like this. I am also not advising people to sell cards and put it into stocks. Mine will be remaining with me until my death, at which point who knows where they go.

Pumpers is not correct. "Fluffers" captures the reality of it a bit more accurately.

As for the last part of the post, we all know the answer:

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When they lay me down to die
Goin' up to the card show in the sky

Goin' up to the card show in the sky
That's where my cards go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Take my cards to the place that's the best

Prepare yourself, you know it's a must
Gotta have a friend with a dealer pass
So you know that when you die
He's gonna get you into the card show in the sky

Whoa, he'll get you into the card show in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die
When you die, and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the show that's the best

Never been a sinner, I've never sinned
I've never collected shiny crap
So you know that when I die
I'm gonna get a dealer pass to the card show in the sky

Whoa, dealer pass for the card show in the sky (in Cleveland)
That's where I'm gonna go when I die (or maybe Chicago)
When I die and they lay me to rest (with my entire collection lining the casket like a Pharoah)
I'm gonna get into the show that's the best (on Tuesday)
Into the show that's the best (before all the good stuff is gone)

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Pumpers is not correct. "Fluffers" captures the reality of it a bit more accurately.

Your fluffer phrasing makes me a LOT more uncomfortable

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

As for the last part of the post, we all know the answer:

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When they lay me down to die
Goin' up to the card show in the sky

Goin' up to the card show in the sky
That's where my cards go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Take my cards to the place that's the best

Prepare yourself, you know it's a must
Gotta have a friend with a dealer pass
So you know that when you die
He's gonna get you into the card show in the sky

Whoa, he'll get you into the card show in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die
When you die, and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the show that's the best

Never been a sinner, I've never sinned
I've never collected shiny crap
So you know that when I die
I'm gonna get a dealer pass to the card show in the sky

Whoa, dealer pass for the card show in the sky (in Cleveland)
That's where I'm gonna go when I die (or maybe Chicago)
When I die and they lay me to rest (with my entire collection lining the casket like a Pharoah)
I'm gonna get into the show that's the best (on Tuesday)
Into the show that's the best (before all the good stuff is gone)

The funeral parlor is going to have some questions when my heirs arrive with my corpse and thousands of T cards to glue around my casket. The low grade cards will match my rotting low grade corpse.

Or I’ll stamp my logo on the back of every one before my heirs sell them for $50 to whoever makes the first offer for the pile of junk I call a carefully curated collection.

The “G1911 Collection” pedigree on the PSA holders will be the first slab pedigree to definitively lower the value of the cards.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

The funeral parlor is going to have some questions when my heirs arrive with my corpse and thousands of T cards to glue around my casket.

I have something else in mind: